A Brief yet Important Visit to Tassajara in 1969

Deb Huntley Remembers

He concludes this part of the lecture

I think I had my brief talk about the teaching of causality. This is a very deep problem, the teaching of causality.                            --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

DC Comment: This is interesting how he here divides the talk into parts. Now the part of it on causality is over. Let's see where he goes from there - starting tomorrow.

A New Review of Zen is Right Now

This is from the Midwest Book Review - down the page some.

A blurb from the review: extraordinary, thought-provoking and highly recommended 

Here's the whole thing: 

Thorough

To know things as it is means to let everything act as they want. "Let it be free" is to be free from. Because you want to bind it, you have difficulties. It means to have thorough understanding of our life. And our practice should be based on the thorough understanding of our human life, and thorough understanding of all the rest of existence.                           --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Mark the Date and Time on your Day Planner

Pacific Zen Institute's Monday Zen Luminaries Series – Zen Priest & Writer David Chadwick in Conversation with Jon Joseph Roshi (this is what they put on their site)

Jon Joseph

MONDAY FEBRUARY 28th

PZI Zen Online: 6pm PST

Check it out at pacificzen.org

Criticise

Something is good like [laughs] "Oh, reality is good [laughs] people are enjoying" [laughter]. That's all. That is the kind of, you know, understanding we have. So, to know things through and through is the point. Without criticizing what it is. If you like, you can criticize it [laughs, laughter], but that criticism [has] nothing to do with the big mind [laughs].                          --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Bird

So, when you accept difficulties with confidence, with big mind, or when you let your difficulty work in its true function, then you have no difficulty—that is not difficulty any more. The difficulty is like a bird flying in the sky. Your mind, the sky knows what it is, "Oh, bird is flying" [laughs]. That's all [laughter].                         --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Dogen said

Dogen Zenji said, "If one side is bright, the other side is dark." When you say “happiness,” that's all. Happiness only. When you say “unhappiness,” unhappiness is only. You have only unhappiness. And when you accept unhappiness or happiness through and through, in this sense, in this way, you have absolute renunciation.                        --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Changing Tracks

So, here things going as a pair of opposite and—

[RB: In changing tracks on the tape, a little bit was missed, but it’s I think a repetition of what he said—something like present and future are a pair of opposites, or a pair of—yes a pair of opposites, and there's no need to change joy to suffering, both exist. Ah, anyway, something like that, but it's a—pretty much a repetition.] 

If we realize this part, through and through, and if you realize what is unhappy and what is happy life, through and through, you will realize this fact.                       --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

DC comment: Richard Baker says "changing tracks." I guess they were still using reel to reel tape.

Unperturbable

We cannot overcome suffering. Because suffering and freedom is a complete pair of opposites, it is possible to attain absolute, unperturbable way of life.                        --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.